{"id":26178,"date":"2015-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/26178\/fire-in-bloedrivier-street\/"},"modified":"2015-03-06T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T07:28:09","slug":"fire-in-bloedrivier-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2015\/03\/07\/fire-in-bloedrivier-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Fire in Bloedrivier Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The house was like a mini workshop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The unoccupied house belongs to a Mr Phokela who is said to own a copper company in the Industrial area, the possible explanation to large quantities of copper, gas cylinders, conveyor belts and transformers on the premises.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A spontaneous fire was ruled out because of the presents of the industrial material on the premises and a possible case of arson is being investigated. This was by far the largest industrial fire we have ever had in a residential area,&#8221; said Mr Andre Mashiloane of Fire and Rescue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had a water challenge but team work between the fire and rescue officials of Middelburg and Witbank, Columbus and other organisations helped us to get the fire under control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/25917\/video-verskeie-brandweerwaens-help\/\">Video: Verskeie brandweerwaens help<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Coppers burning, grinders going off and transformers being delivered,&#8221; was an everyday site at the Bloedrivier house in Aerorand that caught fire on Friday according to a neighbour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":26179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}